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n. a wrestling hold in which the arms are pressed against the opponent's windpipe

n. complete power over a person or situation

Etymologies

From strangle +‎ hold. (Wiktionary)

Examples

Federer, on the other hand, is usually the favorite whenever he enters a major, with the exception of the French, where Nadal has a four-year title stranglehold, including wins over Roger in the last three finales in Paris.

LONDON (MarketWatch) - French police attempted to clear protesters from fuel depots Wednesday, an effort to break a stranglehold on fuel supplies resulting from strikes and protests against the government's plan to raise the retirement age.

In the 1970s, he is on tape agreeing with Nixon that Jews have a "stranglehold" on the media, and saying of his Jewish friends, "they swarm around me and are friendly to me, [but] they don't know how I really feel about what the're doing to this country."

Israel, they wrote, has become a "strategic liability" for the United States but retains its strong support because of a wealthy, well-organized, and bewitching lobby that has a "stranglehold" on Congress and American

The Rev. Billy Graham, spiritual advisor to many presidents, was recorded in Nixon's oval office castigating the Jewish "stranglehold" on this country and hoping that Nixon "might be able to do something" about it.